An AVP customer’s Rational Software migration program is seriously threatened until Rational Accelerated Value steps in to turn it around! The Challenge: IBM Rational Requirements Composer (RRC) is mission critical for this mobile device company, but repeated Jazz Team Server (JTS) crashes jeopardized product reputation to the point that frustrated users were ready to throw out the tool. IBM Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM) is this company’s central CLM offering, serving thousands of R&D users, from Asia to the US. This... [More]

Over the past week, and particularly this past weekend, a few new downloads made their way through our tweet stream and Facebook wall . Seeing as these were posted during typically 'off' hours for most of us, we thought it would be of some benefit to highlight those recent releases here, to raise visibility in the case that you may have missed and need one or more of these downloads: IBM Rational Application Developer Standard Edition for WebSphere Software, Version 8.0.3 http://ow.ly/1djSf7 IBM... [More]

Consider this scenario: An Analyst removed and deleted certain artifacts within a IBM Rational Requirements Composer (RRC) module. These artifacts were linked to IBM Rational Team Concert (RTC) work items. There was a need to know if there is a way to clean up these orphaned links in RTC, instead of going to the work items, clicking on the linked RRC artifacts and only then to realize that the artifact has been deleted in RRC. Here is the message that is received when someone clicks on the dead RRC link from RTC work item: ... [More]

I'm constantly amazed at the great information our developerWorks authors produce on such a consistent basis. To prove that point, here are the latest articles from the past week that have gone live on developerWorks Rational : Develop reliable software with DevOps By: Bob Aiello, Consultant and Technical editor, CM Best Practices Consulting (Division of Yellow... [More]